Tucked in-between Arizona State’s first two season series’ was a learning opportunity, an exhibition as it was marked down on the schedule between the Sun Devils and the Arizona Diamondbacks.
Arizona State is young, its bullpen is drastically inexperienced. Through four games, the Sun Devil coaching staff only had the chance to look at and evaluate a handful of the arms. For some of ASU’s pitchers, Wednesday was the first time they had thrown a collegiate pitch to a batter who wasn’t wearing maroon and gold.
Arizona State head coach Tracy “Skip” Smith has talked at length about being cautiously optimistic about some of the younger guys because he hadn’t seen it in a real game.